Hermann Picha – MRQE

Die Weber

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Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers revolution.

Die Welt ohne Maske

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Harry Piel

Kyritz – Pyritz

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Geheimnisse des Orients

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff

Das Geheimnis des Abbe X

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Dirnentragödie

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Before road movies there were street films, a distinct cycle within German silent cinema. The essential ingredient – misalliance between bourgeois and slum dweller – is present here, though somewhat displaced by Asta Nielsen’s star persona. She plays an aging hooker who falls for handsome Felix, a student who has rowed with his parents and ventured into the lower depths. Dreaming of a new life, she ejects her pimp and invests her savings in a cake shop. Even without that title, though, you wouldn’t bet on a happy ending. Nielsen is a quite restrained sort of diva, and Rahn likewise soft pedals the melodrama, except for the grand finale. He died soon after making this, his contemporaries regretting the masterworks the cinema was thus denied. Well, maybe.

Mutter und Kind

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and cant have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they wont be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesnt wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer.